Official Publication of the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

Editor-in-Chief: Piet E.J.J. Haers, Guildford, UK

Editorial Board
Honorary Editor-in-Chief: Section Editors:
Paul J.W. Stoelinga Leonard Kaban, Boston, MA, USA
Associate Editors: Joseph Piecuch, Avon, CT, USA
David H. Perrott, Salinas, CA, USA Ralf Schoen, Freiburg, Germany
Lim K. Cheung, Hong Kong, China George Dimitroulis, Melbourne, Australia
Henning Schliephake, Göttingen, Germany Hendrik Terheyden, Kassel, Germany
Ashraf Ayoub, Glasgow, UK
Assistant Editors:
Robert Ord, Baltimore, MD, USA
Cyrus Kerawala, Basingstoke, UK
Henning Schliephake, Göttingen, Germany
Matthias Merkx, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Nabil Samman, Hong Kong, China
Carrie Newlands, Guildford, UK
Takashi Fujibayashi, Tokyo, Japan
Mu’Ammar Abu-Serriah, London, UK
Stephen Feinberg, Ann Abor, MI, USA
Ashraf Ayoub, Glasgow, UK
David Perrott, Salinas, CA, USA
Editorial Assistant: Alexis Olsson, Chicago, IL, USA
Jacqui Merrison
Reviewing Committee
SECTION 1 Edward ChengChuan Ko, Taiwan SECTION 7 Reviewers
Congenital craniofacial deformities Andre Luis Cortez, Brazil Oral surgery Jan G. A. M. de Visscher, The Netherlands
Section Chairman Mark Egbert, USA Section Chairman Ellen Eisenberg, USA
Leonard Kaban, Boston, MA, USA Ibrahim El-Hakim, Egypt Ashraf Ayoub, Glasgow, UK John W. Eveson, UK
Reviewers Edward Ellis III, USA Reviewers Etienne Piette, Belgium
Meredith August, USA Mario Gabrielli, Brazil Izumi Asahina, Japan Piet J. Slootweg, The Netherlands
A. Baumann, Austria Kandasamy Ganesan, UK Juergen Becker, Germany P. J. W. Stoelinga, The Netherlands
M. Belfer, USA Klaus Louis Gerlach, Germany Kazuhisa Bessho, Japan Julia Woolgar, UK
William Bell, USA Hasan Suat Gokce, Turkey Paul Coulthard, UK
Sung-Kiang Chuang, USA Leslie Halpern, USA Soren Hillerup, Denmark
George Cisneros, USA Richard Haug, USA Judith Jones, UK SECTION 11
Michael Cohen, Canada Ian Holland, UK John Meechan, UK Oral Medicine/Therapeutics
B.J. Costello, USA John P. Kelly, USA Colin Murray, UK Section Chairman
Bruce Donoff, USA Nihat Kilic, Turkey Graham Ogden, UK Takashi Fujibayashi, Tokyo, Japan
Rolf Ewers, Austria Bruno Kreiner, Israel Tara Renton, UK Reviewers
Jaime Guerrero, Columbia Tae-Geon Kwon, Korea Douglas Robertson, UK Stuart Lieblich, USA
Janice Lee, USA Thomas Lambrecht, Switzerland Peter Robinson, UK Marco Carrozzo, UK
Michael Longaker, USA Peter Larsen, USA Keith Smith, UK David Dohan Ehrenfest, France
Robert Myall, USA Carol Lorente, USA Risto-Pekka Happonen, Finland
Bonnie Padwa, USA lain McVicar, UK Tomasz Kaczmarzyk, Poland
SECTION 8 Akihiro Kaneko, Japan
Maria Papadaki, USA Isaac Nuamah, Ghana Head and neck oncology
M. Anthony Pogrel, USA Micha Peled, Israel Eiro Kubota, Japan
Section Chairman Thomas Pallasch, USA
Jeffrey C. Posnick, USA Vidya Rattan, India Robert Ord, Baltimore, MD, USA
Edward Seldin, USA Torsten Reichert, Germany Martin Thornhill, UK
Reviewers Daniel Torres-Lagares, Spain
Barry Steinberg, USA Peter Revington, UK Alessio Baccarini, Italy
Joan Stoler, USA Ralf Schoen, Germany Arjan Vissink, Netherlands
Sandip Basu, India Zengtong Zhou, China
Adrian Sugar, UK Ingo Springer, Germany Bryan Bell, USA
Maria Troulis, USA Yoshikazu Suei, Japan Tim Blackburn, UK
Karin Vargervik, USA Alexander Sverzut, Brazil James Brown, UK SECTION 12
Katherine Vig, USA Rafael Block Veras, Germany Eric Carlson, USA Research and emerging technologies
Leslie Will, USA Peter Ward-Booth, UK Lim Kwon Cheung, Hong Kong Section Chairman
James Jiong Xia, USA Mike Williams, UK Rui Fernandes, USA Stephen Feinberg, Ann Abor, MI, USA
Hans-Florian Zeilhofer, Switzerland Steve Worrall, UK Manoel Sant’Ana Filho, Brazil Reviewers
Zhang Yi, China M.P. Foschini, Italy Tara Aghaloo, USA
SECTION 2 Hiroyoshi Hiratsuka, Japan Sean Edwards , USA
Orthognathic surgery SECTION 5
TMJ Kelvin Lim Lye Hock, Malaysia Julie Glowacki, US
Section Chairman Deepak Kademani, USA Scott J. Hollister, USA
Joseph Piecuch, Avon, CT, USA Section Chairman
George Dimitroulis, Melbourne, Australia Franz-Josef Kramer, Germany Dietmar Hutmacher, Singapore
Reviewers Hanifi Kurtaran, Turkey Kenji Izumi, USA
Remy Blanchaert, USA Reviewers
M. Franklin Dolwick, USA John Langdon, UK John A. Jansen, The Netherlands
W.A. Borstlap, The Netherlands Mao Li, Houston, TX, USA David Kohn, USA
Thomas W. Braun, USA Kim Elise Goldman, USA
Raúl González-García, Spain Yoshiro Matsui, Japan Paul H. Krebsbach, USA
David Feinerman, Boynton Beach, FL, USA Alastair N. Goss, Australia Mark McGurk, UK Anh Le, USA
Mark Fletcher, USA Max Heiland, Germany M. A. W. Merkx, The Netherlands Jeremy Mao, USA
Robert Gassner, Austria Anders Holmlund, Sweden Friedrich-Wilhelm Neukam, Germany Ralph Mueller, Switzerland
Andrew Heggie, Australia Siegfried Jank, Austria Maxine Partridge, UK Nikoloas Nikitakis, Greece
Th. J. M. Hoppenreijs, The Netherlands David Keith, USA Janet Risk, UK Songtao Shi, USA
Dennis Lanigan, Canada Hiroshi Kurita, Japan Andrew Raymond Salama, USA Riitta Suuronen, Finland
Renato Mazzonetto, Brazil Dorrit Nitzan, Israel Mark A. Scheper, USA Gaylord S. Throckmorton, USA
David S. Precious, Canada Graham Putnam, UK Brian Schmidt, USA Dritan Turhani, USA
George B. Sandor, Canada Andrew J. Sidebottom, UK James Sciubba, USA Franz E. Weber, Switzerland
Jocelyn Shand, Australia Tetsu Takahashi, Japan Claudia Staffieri, Italy
Timothy Turvey, USA Corrado Toro, Udine, Italy David Wiesenfeld, Australia
Peter D. Waite, USA Philip Worthington, USA Jorg Wiltfang, Germany ABSTRACT SECTION
Konrad Wangerin, Germany Tetsuya Yoda, Japan Guang-yan Yu, China Section Chairman
Larry Wolford, USA Lim Cheung, Hong Kong, China
Eppo Wolvius, Netherlands SECTION 6 Abstract Editors
SECTION 9
Pre-implant surgery/dental implants Reconstructive surgery Xu-dong Wang, Chinese Literature
SECTION 3 Section Chairman Patrick Diner, French Literature
Section Chairman
Cosmetic facial surgery Hendrik Terheyden, Kassel, Germany George Anastassov, Russian Literature
Henning Schliephake, Göttingen, Germany
Section Chairman Reviewers Gwen Swennen, German Literature
Reviewers
David Perrott, Salinas, CA, USA Leon Ardekian, Israel Julio Acero, Spanish Literature
Johan Abeloos, Belgium
Reviewers B. Al-Nawas, Germany Ken Omura, Japanese Literature
Julio Acero, Spain
Bruce Epker, USA Michael S. Block, USA Reha Kisnisci, Turkish Literature
Chris Avery, UK
Jaime Gateno, USA Mateo Chiapasco, Italy Youri Anastassov, Bulgarian Literature
John Cawood, UK
Barry H. Hendler, USA Sung-Kiang Chuang, USA Lugi Califano, Italian Literature
Zhang Chen-Ping, China
John Werther, USA Thomas Dodson, USA Thangchai Nuntanaranont, Thai Literature
Jeroen Fennis, Netherlands
Stefan Lundgren, Sweden David Kim, USA
SECTIO N4 Luiz Marinho, Brazil Siegmar Reinart, Germany
Trauma Peter K. Moy, USA BOOK REVIEWS
Simon Rogers, UK
Section Chairman Waldemar Polido, Brazil David Perrott, Salinas, CA, USA
Stefan Schultze-Mosgau, Germany
Mike Perry, Belfast, Northern Ireland Gerry Raghoebar, Netherlands Klaus Wolff, Germany
Reviewers David Shafer, USA Bob Woodwards, UK LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Taiseer Al-Khateeb, Jordan Gwen Swennen, Belgium
Gregorio Sanchez Aniceto, Spain Gabor Tepper, Austria David Perrott, Salinas, CA, USA
Martin Batsone, UK Koichiro Ueda, Japan SECTION 10
Alexandre Borba, Brazil Raymond White, USA Clinical pathology
Kurt-Wilhelm Bütow, South Africa Manfred Wichman, Germany Section Chairman CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Omar Campos, Chile John Wolfaardt, Canada Nabil Samman, Hong Kong, China Alexis Olsson, Chicago, IL, USA